Category 1: Vision and Values
We treat all individuals with dignity, educate them of their rights and responsibilities, and honor their values and culture.
Respect
We believe all families have strengths and the capacity to make informed decisions and drive change.
Family Centered
Listening to families, recognizing strengths and needs, not being judgmental, facilitating a child and family team, including children, youth and families in case planning.
Engagement
Three CFSR Sections
Safety, Permanency and Well-Being
Where Santa Lives
North Pole
We believe accurate, thorough, and timely assessment and documentation are essential to quality work.
Excellence
We create a helping environment that identifies trauma, recognizes underlying causes, incorporates history to provide insight into current functioning, positively manages symptoms, promotes resiliency, prevents further trauma and encourages healing.
Trauma-Informed
Making families the core team members, coordinating the case planning team, meeting regularly, collaborating with formal and informal supports and community services for children and families
Teaming
Streamlined processes to improve productivity and program outcomes
Emily Medere
Was born with a heart that was two sizes too small
The Grinch
We believe the community within the child welfare system is made up of families, case managers, supervisors, managers and state, federal and local stakeholders (i.e., churches, medical, professionals, schools, etc.) who together protect, strengthen and care for children and families.
Community Invested
We maximize success by identifying each individual’s unique strengths and incorporating them into needs-based case planning.
Individualized and Strengths-Based
Continuous identification (formal and informal) of family functioning, strengths, needs, challenges, protective capacities
Functional Assessment
Safety Item PIP Counties Passed
Item 3
Miracle on 34th Street is based on which real-life department store
Macy’s
We believe South Carolina deserves a public child welfare program with qualified and committed staff who engage families and communities to promote well-being, protect children, and prevent child abuse and neglect.
Accountability
We respect differences and work to eliminate all biases and disparities.
Culturally Responsive
Individualized provision of services, connecting families to community resources, identifying formal and informal supports, addressing needs identified in the functional assessment and case planning, and building safety networks
Intervening
Core Principles in The Coach Approach
Focus, Exploration, Understanding, Partnership
Rudolph’s Father
Donner
We believe Child Welfare Services Staff must behave and the qualities they must have to be effective in their work with children and families and in their interactions with colleagues.
Vision and Values
Enhancing Practice and Transforming Lives
Better Together
Continuous evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions and the family’s progress in meeting the objectives of the case plan
Tracking and Adapting
Visits are documented here
Visitation Tab
Santa’s 9 Reindeer
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blizten and Rudolph